Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“policy”) will help you understand how All Brains Belong VT (“ABB-VT,” “we,” “our”) uses and protects the information (“data”) you provide to us when you visit and use our website. 

What Information We Collect & Why

Our website contains ways to provide information. However, we do not store, sell, trade or market any information you provide.

Personal Information

When you visit the website, you have the option of providing the following personal information:

  • Your contact information and email address.
  • Your interests and preferences 
  • Our website also has hyperlinks to reputable third party websites (Amazon, Registry, Givebox). This allows users to make optional donations to ABB-VT.
  • Our website also gives users the option to provide contact information in order to be added to our mailing list via Mailchimp.

We collect this information to allow you to choose to participate in community center programs and events or to contact us with questions, comments, or feedback.

For primary care patients only, you have the option of accessing external third party HIPAA-secure websites (Klara, Google, xxx) for online scheduling of medical appointments and completing required intake and consent forms electronically, instead of needing to make phone calls or download / print paper forms to register. This personal information is NOT collected or stored by the ABB-VT website. Rather, this information is collected directly by these HIPAA-secure websites, transmitted electronically via end to end encryption, and stored according to these companies’ HIPAA-secure protocols. ABB-VT has business associate agreements with these companies, in order to protect patients’ privacy and confidentiality. You can read the privacy policy documentation of these websites when you access these links from our website.

Non-Personal Information

When you visit our website, our website collects your IP address as part of enhanced website security, and uses cookies in order for us to understand how our website is being used. Please note that cookies don’t allow us to gain control of your computer in any way. They are strictly used to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not so that we can provide a better experience for you.If you want to disable cookies, you can do it by accessing the settings of your internet browser. 

Safeguarding and Securing the Data

ABB-VT is committed to securing your data and keeping it confidential. We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the personal data. We use a variety of physical and technical measures, policies, and procedures (such as access control procedures, network firewalls, encrypting data at rest, encrypting data in transit, and physical security) designed to protect our systems and all the information we collect online. Our website is hosted on a secure server with three layers of encryption. We utilize an SSL certificate. All administrative access for our accounts with third party websites for which we provide optional hyperlinks that require two-factor authentication to access. 

In order to maximize security and protection for our website users, we do not directly store personal information from our website users. We have business associate agreements with reputable third party vendors (Google and Klara), and we utilize their programs directly as a method for users to provide personal information that is transmitted via encryption to the Google and Klara secure servers. Both Google and Klara have comprehensive policies in place to follow HIPAA mandates. When website visitors transmit personal information (name, date of birth, etc), this information goes directly to Google and Klara. The All Brains Belong VT staff only accesses your data through the protection of the Google and Klara servers. This data does not leave the Google and Klara servers. This data is not exchanged or sold. 

ABB-VT Primary Care page

Patients of the All Brains Belong VT primary care practice are given the option of completing their medical intake and insurance forms (involving name, date of birth, contact information, insurance information, medical history, and consent forms) electronically instead of using paper forms. These are also done via Klara. Again, all information provided by patients stays on the HIPAA-secure Klara server.

Other pages 

Participants of the All Brains Belong VT community center are given the option of completing questionnaires to give feedback, apply for volunteer positions, and sign up for programs/events. This is done directly through the security of the Google Drive system. This website also contains optional hyperlinks directly to third party websites (Registry.com, Amazon.com, Givebox.com, Mailchimp.com), for website visitors’ convenience to access those websites. 

There may be additional hyperlinks to other websites included in our text content. These sites have their own privacy policies. We suggest that you visit these sites’ individual privacy policies prior to providing personal data, as this is outside the purview of ABB-VT and this document.

Donations

All Brains Belong VT is a Vermont nonprofit organization based in Montpelier, Vermont, United States. At this time, ABB-VT is a 501(c)(3) pending organization. This means that the Internal Revenue Service is currently reviewing our application for federal non-profit designation. Donations made between now and receiving our 501(c)(3) status are tax-deductible retroactive to our July 2021 incorporation. All donors will receive a receipt of their contributions.

Through the ABB-VT website, there are hyperlinks to provide optional donations to ABB-VT through Givebox.com, Amazon.com, and MyRegistry.com. Our website does not collect information about donors; all financial transactions take place through these third party websites.

Information regarding the security of these systems is available at their respective websites.

Agreement

By continuing to access or use our website, you agree to be legally bound by this Privacy Policy. This policy is reviewed annually by the All Brains Belong VT Board of Directors, and updates will be posted to our website. For questions or concerns pertaining to privacy, please contact .

LAST MODIFIED: OCTOBER 5, 2021